Why are there still no extensions for Chromium on mobile?

I love Chromium on Android, but not having uBlock origin makes me stick with Firefox (or Mull).

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For exactly the reasons you state - Google doesn't want ad blockers in their browser.
- Wonder why they haven't nuked them on desktop Chrome then, where extensions are a plenty?
  Is mobile a much more juicy fruit for their advertisers, or is it like said elsewhere in here more a technical thing?
  
  Wonder why they haven’t nuked them on desktop Chrome then, where extensions are a plenty?
  Extensions are so popular on PC browsers, that Google could really jeopardize their dominant market share, if they were to completely remove extension support. The press would be on it for weeks and there could be a real hit on user numbers.
  I think that Google rather tolerates the small number of users who use extensions and doesn't want bad PR for Chrome on PC.
  But I wouldn't be surprised, when Google tries this in the future, when their browser market share is over 90%.
  The game is different for mobile though – here we have a much bigger majority of unexperienced users who likely have never heard of browser extensions or such possibilities as easy-one-click-installation of ad-blockers.
  
  I suppose a good canary on that then would be Google taking away the manual setting of PrivateDNS and making it only their DNS, in the name of some security threat/other reason.
  
  Probably because the cat is already out of the bag there. Hard to reign them back in and they'd have tons of bad press if they do that.
- But what I don't get is why doesn't Microsoft or someone large like that bundle extensions into their browser. I know Samsung has app based ones but I wish it could be built in and have ublock origin etc
- fair point!

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